By Greg Cote gcote@MiamiHerald As the PGA Tour’s World Golf Championships event wraps up Sunday in Miami, it seems Doral’s newly redesigned Blue Monster Course needs a new nickname. Our suggestion: Donald’s House of Horrors. I mean, yes, Doral’s famed signature course had gone soft and needed toughening to challenge the world’s best players, but perhaps Donald Trump’s $200 million-plus redesign since buying the place has gone a smidge overboard, based on scores this week. On Friday alone, in conditions windy enough to send Trump’s toupee spiraling skyward, more than 100 balls were hit in the water and no player broke 70. Only four of 69 players were under par — all of them a mere 1-under — entering the weekend. Asked which holes are the most challenging, Tiger Woods deadpanned, “One through 18.” The Blue Monster is brutally harder at every turn. The greens are so large now I thought I saw players using drivers from the fringe. You know how sometimes the ball gets lost in the rough? Now players are getting lost in there. The bunkers are now massive, collapsing sinkholes. The cart paths have high banks, chicanes and hairpin turns. Even the fairways are unfair. On Saturday, I saw flag sticks flying across the course like javelins as terrified fans dove for cover. The trees were talking, like in The Wizard of Oz. Without warning, the tee boxes now shift with remote-controlled tremors. I saw players using calculators to add up their scorecards. And I don’t wanna say the Blue Monster has appreciably more water on the course now, but, Saturday alone, several players had their swings interrupted by noise from waving tourists on passing cruise ships. Read more here: miamiherald/2014/03/09/3982657/trump-lets-the-monster-loose-terrorizing.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:26:57 +0000
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